How Do Students Learn?

Describe each of the three learning principles described in How Students Learn.

1. Engaging in Prior Understanding:

Assessing the Student's Foundation of Topic/Concept
Assess misconceptions/Preconceptions
Making connections to previous knowledge (It must be accurate knowledge)
Engage/pull out prior knowledge (teacher's job)

2. Essential Role of Factual Knowledge & Conceptional Frameworks in understanding:

Building off prior knowledge with new concepts and ideas
Organizing and processing information
Using connections to build on previous foundation
Deep foundation of factual knowledge
Synthesize factual knowledge v. conceptual
Organize knowledge in a manner that will facilitate retrieval and application
Concepts take on a meaning if they are applied

3. The Importance of Self-Monitoring:

Metacognition
Defining your own goals
Self-assessment
Recognizing what strategies work and what doesnt
Improving Study Skills
Acknowledging new challenges
Reciprocal Teaching (Students)
Reflecting
Monitoring if helpful while participating in group work
Learning to ask questions (Students do this while engaged)
Combining learning strategies with application (ie. rehersal = short-term memory)
Engage is self-explanation= Deeper conceptual understanding